The early warnings let the administrators react instantly to adjust filters to remove the dangerous payloads on a virus or quarantine suspect messages until a cure is available from the anti-virus companies.

BBC: Watching the web for viruses

The researchers also managed to get an Android antivirus app to download and install fake virus signatures that then identified the antivirus tool as a virus and gave the user the opportunity to remove it.

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